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Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant ResistanceUser Review - Maria - Goodreads20130127 For Social Anthropology 3400 (core requirement), Winter Q 2013. I am exquisitely uninterested in this book, but need to read it for my part in a group presentation. Le sigh. Read full review Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant ResistanceUser Review - Rifhan - GoodreadsScott spent two years (p. xvii) in (fictionally named),Sedaka, Malaysia collecting empirical evidence of “everyday forms of peasant resistance” for this book. While there, he observed the locals ... Read full review Related booksContents
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